THREE ALABAMA PRISONERS LED WORK STOPPAGES in three Alabama Slave Prisons in January 2014 = Free Alabama Movement 18+ months in solitary confinement = Three men remain in indefinite solitary confinement denied televisions and reading material = Spend at least three days a week, sometimes longer, without leaving their tiny isolation cells + Eat meals seated on their steel toilets + Shower once every two days despite temperatures above 90 degrees = Symbols of a growing resistance movement inside American prisons = Work stoppages and refusal to co-operate with authorities = Worker Strikes are the only mechanism left to the 2.3 million prisoners across America — Forces prison authorities to hire compensated labor paid a fair wage NOT SLAVE WAGES = Neoslavery

“We have to shut down the prisons…We will not work for free anymore. All the work in prisons, from cleaning to cutting grass to working in the kitchen, is done by inmate labor. [Almost no prisoner] in Alabama is paid. Without us the prisons, which are slave empires, cannot function. Prisons, at the same time, charge us a variety of fees, such as for our identification cards or wrist bracelets, and [impose] numerous fines, especially for possession of contraband. They charge us high phone and commissary prices. Prisons each year are taking larger and larger sums of money from the inmates and their families. The state gets from us millions of dollars in free labor and then imposes fees and fines. You have brothers that work in kitchens 12 to 15 hours a day and have done this for years and have never been paid.” — Council, known as Kinetik, LIFE IN PRISON ANS SERVED 21 YEARS SO FAR, one of the founders of the Free Alabama Movement from the Holman Correctional Facility in Escambia County, Ala.

NO Political process or Solutions for Americans MUCH LESS PRISONERS + COURTS, JUDGES, AND LAWYERS ARE COMPLETE FAILURES!

ONLY SOLUTION = PROTESTS WITH WORK STOPPAGES FOR CORPORATIONS EXPLOITING PRISON SLAVERY.

CORPORATIONS = FINANCE THE school-to-prison pipeline FOR SLAVE LABOR = McDonald’s uses prisoners to process beef for patties and package bread, milk, chicken products. BOYCOTT THEM! PLUS MANY MORE CORPORATIONS = “Legislators are owned by corporations” = “Politicians are in it for the money.” = PROTEST AT THE PRISONS WHERE SLAVERY IS REAL = WE NEED OUTSIDE SUPPORT HERE!

PRISON SYSTEM SCAMS = $500 BILLION CORPORATE SCAM

FACT: “Once (PRISONERS) take our labor back, prisons will again become places for correction and rehabilitation rather than centers of corporate profit.”

FACT: “Sleeping on a concrete slab is not going to teach you how to read or write or solve mental health issues.” = “Designed to make sure people are driven back into PRISON to work as SLAVES”

DEFINITION OF CRIMINAL IN AMERICA = Means that what happens to you does not matter. “They deserve what they get.”

FACT: Prisons place larger and larger financial burdens on families, with the poorest families suffering the most. “If you don’t get money from your family, your poverty blocks you out from buying items at the commissary or making phone calls. You can’t communicate with your family. If you don’t have someone to send you money you can’t even buy stamps to write home.” + $4 medical co-pay if we make a sick call + Medication is $4 + $16/visit + If you get $20 from a family member, the state will take $16 off the top to pay for the visit = $4 to spend at a jacked-up canteen = MOST ARE IN DEBT

FACT: FORCE + BRUTALITY USED TO MAKE PEOPLE WORK AS SLAVES AND LIVE IN SLAVERY CONDITIONS = SLAVE EMPIRE OF FOR-PROFIT McDonald’s PRISONS = HORRIFIC BEATINGS BY GUARDS = “up against the wall [with my hands cuffed behind me]. 10 officers started swinging, punching and hitting me with sticks. They knocked my legs out from under me. My face hit the floor. They stomped on my face. They sent me to the infirmary to hide what they did, for 30 days = Looking in the mirror I could not recognize my facial features.

FACT: IN America if you are poor and black you will be exploited, brutalized and murdered. = White society has NOT really changed since slavery.